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Good foto, gave me a grin. Bet the Iraqis are thinkin its all too true right now, hehe. SD, yur story reminded me of another early attempt at stealth in WW2. IIRC, it was the Brits who flew a number of aircraft thru searchlight beams, all painted different colors, to see which color hid the aircraft best at night. All the aircraft were spotted, including the one painted flat black, except for one. When the light battery commander asked where the plane was, they were told it had already flown thru. They had it fly thru the beam several times and never spotted it once. Its color? Gloss black, a color still used by spec ops and contraban runners to this day. Seems the light beams tend to reflect off the vehicle and dont cast a silohuette. Watch the shiny black cars and trucks on the streets at night. You'll notice that when they pass thru the shadows, they are more difficult to see distinctly. When I was overseas, when we pulled into Naples, Italy, While we were running liberty boats, we had to keep an eye out at night for the contraban boats. They were high performance boats painted glossy black. Generally, all you saw of them was a blue flame coming from their exhaust pipes and a little wake as they hydra-planed past you going very fast. Once in awhile they were followed by flashing red and blue lights... We heard later what cargo they were hauling that was so valuable to risk jail, care to guess? It wasnt drugs, at least not generally, it wasnt booze, it was cigerettes, US made cigarettes.

Well, I just gotta say, after seein some of you guys pics, I sure feel a LOT better about myself.... :shock: :P ...just pullin yur chains, hehe. I did get a good grin though. :D

All right, you asked for it...this is a few pics I posted on the Military Gamers Group website. The fairly recent pic of me is from 1999 when I was still in the California Natl Guard. Dont have one more recent. Just add a beard, take away more hair on top and paint it all grey and you'll have it... http://www.militarygamers.com/personal18.htm I might also add that any of you military and former military are welcome to request to join the MGG. We need more targets... :0) The main page is here... http://www.militarygamers.com/index2.htm

Hmmmm, hadnt heard of that before. Whenever I was killed before in IL2, I could still see everything. Never had the screen go black like that before. Oh well, me dying in headons isnt uncommon though, you'd think I'd learn... :roll: I did find that I could switch views and continue seeing what was going on. Thanks. So when do you charchters wanna get together for a little mano e mano? Hey I understand if ya dont though, I do have a pretty deadly reputation... :roll:

So now ya got me wondering...is the thrust vectoring problem in SFP1 being squared away in this next patch? That would allow helos of all stripes, along with planes like the Yak-36/38 Forger or the HArrier. That would be...cool... :) Check out these VTOL aircraft, some real oddities...http://www.strange-mecha.com/aircraft/VTOL/VTOL.htm

Yeah, kinda like "what if" scenarios. I do agree that for now the focus should be to get out the "era" aircraft first. But I see no reason why newer a/c couldnt be added later.

Cool, verrrrry cool....did I say that this is cool? Let me reiterate that this is way cool, even totally cool. I mean, its like ... cool... :D F-89...its cool...

Thanks Urubu, glad to hear Marcello's still "painting". Love his skins... :D

Interesting plane pasko. I'll be glad when all these neat models finally have real flight models. I understand now that TK said something about there not being a flight model editor. So you doin that editing long hand? Thats gotta be a pain... Anyway, thanks for all your great work, I love it. I can see me in that cockpit...hehe.

YAY! Glad to hear it. Hope the multiplay is gettin squared away. The single missions are gettin old. Any word on a proper mission editor? I'd sure like to roll my own...

Yeah, I love this sim. Way too cool. It seems to run pretty good on my P3 1ghz machine with a Radeon 8500 64 meg card. I do have some graphical glitches occasionally though. Almost everytime I go head on with an enemy, my screen goes black. I have one airbase were I start my missions for the campaign I am building and the end of the runway is raised above the rest of the runway, really weird. I also get an opengl error message when I close the game out. Doesnt seem to affect restarts of the game. Other that that, she runs good. Already played online with a few guys and it was cool. Now all I gotta do is figure out the bombsights.

Sorry for the problems you encountered on your return Jeff. Hope ya nail the slime...

Lookin forward to this bird. It will be a LOT of fun to do the dumbo walk over a target... :shock: :D 8)

LOL the youngsters version of affirmative posting action :D Hey good luck Todd, just be considerate and a gentleman, and flash yur grin at her, you'll likely get her attention. :D

Be careful FE & watch yur six pal. We'll keep the fires bright here till ya get back. From an old serviceman to the new generation... Semper Fi bro.

actually, the bush picture is kinda amusing, hehe. Oughta email that to the pres...

Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 13:55:03 -0500 The following passage is from a sermon by a local minister: I want you to close your eyes and picture in your mind the soldier at Valley Forge, as he holds his musket in his bloody hands. He stands barefoot in the snow, the cold wind whipping thru the rags that cover him, starved from lack of food, wounded from months of battle and emotionally scarred from the eternity away from his family surrounded by nothing but death and carnage of war. He stands though, with fire in his eyes and victory on his breath. He looks at us now in anger and disgust and tells us this... "I gave you a birthright of freedom born in the Constitution and now your children graduate too illiterate to read it. I fought in the snow barefoot to give you the freedom to vote and you stay at home because it rains. I left my family destitute to give you the freedom of speech and you remain silent on critical issues, because it might be bad for business. I orphaned my children to give you a government to serve you, and you have allowed it to legislate away your freedoms, to steal democracy from the people by chipping away at the true meaning of the constitution. It's the soldier not the reporter who gives you the freedom of the press. It's the soldier not the poet who gives you the freedom of speech. It's the soldier not the campus organizer who allows you to demonstrate. It's the soldier who salutes the flag, serves the flag, whose coffin is draped with the flag that allows the protester to burn the flag!!! Its the soldier that swore to defend the constitution, from enemies foreign AND domestic." "Lord, hold our troops in your loving hands. Protect them as they protect us. Bless them and their families for the selfless acts they perform for us in our time of need. I ask this in the name of Jesus, our Lord and Savior Amen." Please stop for a moment and say a prayer for our U.S. troops all over this world. Of all the gifts you could give a US Soldier, Prayer is the very best one.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! :shock: grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr... :evil: As long as my gun's still in me warm hands, we wont have lost nothin'.

Good story...yeah, takes cajones...

Hmmmm, man those poor Russians sure had some squirrelly lookin pilots... hehehe, couldnt resist...

I didnt think your question was stupid at all Dutchy, nothin wrong with askin my friend. I wish I was still in the Navy, Id love to have given you a tour of my ships. Then maybe one day, you could give me a tour of your good country. I just got done readin some books I got on World War2 and the resistance in the German occupied countries. The Netherlands very bravely resisted and saved many jews and allied flyers, and did much to assist in paving the way for their eventual liberation by allied forces, all to thier eternal credit. Sounds like my kinda people... :D Take a look here Dutchy... http://www.cvn74.navy.mil/

The French annoy the daylights outta me, but I am not sure this is wise. Sounds too knee jerk to me and Congress excells at that. Isnt there an old saying that, "it isnt a fight till both sides swing." I think we would be a far better example to the world if we put aside our anger and demonstrated our quiet pride in ourselves, our equipment, and our achievements at the airshow.

Im sure it did snapple, you made mine...well done lad...

LOL! Todd throws in a pic of a troller, hehehe. Good one man!

Sheesh...the media, our opponents best allie...after Clinton...